About

Tom Güldemann studied general linguistics, African linguistics and Portuguese at the Universities of Leipzig and Cologne. He finished his PhD in 1995 on "Verb morphology and dependent clauses in Bantu" (University of Cologne) and his 'habilitation' thesis in 2001 on "Quotative constructions in African languages: a synchronic and diachronic survey" (University of Leipzig). He has been affiliated with the MPI-EVA since October 2000 and among other things directs there 2 documentation projects on endangered Tuu languages. He is currently professor at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.